Coming to life : philosophies of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering /
The volume's contributors engage in sustained reflection on women's experiences and on the beliefs, customs, and political institutions by which they are informed. They think beyond the traditional pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy, speak to the manifold nature of mothering by considering the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Perspectives in continental philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Philosophical Significance of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering
- PART I: The Philosophical Canon
- Plato, Maternity, and Power
- Of Courage Born
- Original Habitation
- The Birth of Sexual Difference
- PART II: Ethics
- Birthing Responsibility
- Birthmothers and Maternal Identity
- What's an Adoptive Mother to Do?
- Part III: Politics
- The Pro-Choice Pro-Lifer
- The Political "Nature" of Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Disempowered Women?
- PART IV: Popular Culture
- Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down
- Exposing the Breast
- Part V: Feminist Phenomenology
- The Order of Life
- The Vision of the Artist/Mother.